Example sentences of "i [vb past] that he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment .
2 Later I realized that he meant , quite simply , an anti-Semite is inevitably anti-Negro .
3 Then I realized that he did n't want one to respond , that a response of almost any kind would have interrupted his flow , and the politest thing to do was follow the ADC 's example and just listen .
4 From this last question I realised that he thought Leslie had been a member of the Special Operations Executive ( S.O.E. ) , whose agents , trained in Britain and flown or dropped into France , worked in association with local groups , and sent back information to London .
5 But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done .
6 I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . "
7 I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face .
8 When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room .
9 In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them .
10 Talking to a tobacconist I found that he has some women customers and a range of smaller pipes for them to choose from .
11 I remember one time I reported that he had developed a cough and back came a directive that we should try to make an audio recording of it .
12 Bri and I assumed that he 'd had enough of his countrymen and wanted to tune out .
13 I noted that he 'd forgotten to say ‘ sir ’ .
14 I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' .
15 We shook hands warmly ; I noticed that he had his old clay pipe in his mouth but there was no tobacco in it as he sucked at it and repeatedly removed the pipe from his mouth .
16 I noticed that he had a sophisticated VHF receiver listening to police control .
17 ‘ So jung , ’ he said in astonishment , and I noticed that he had not got the face of a giant at all but that of a very old and reliable nanny .
18 After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter .
19 Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school .
20 At this point I noticed that he had only one nostril .
21 I noticed that he had pressed his elbows into the desk to stop his hands shaking .
22 I noticed that he wore one of his own clerical collars round his neck .
23 Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself .
24 I noticed that he pronounced the name B'bbitt .
25 " The other day when I flew over the palace of the king , " said the buzzard , " I noticed that he has a very beautiful daughter .
26 Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life .
27 While acknowledging his argument for the bolt placement , I advised that he had done the route ; if others thought a bolt should be placed , let someone else go ahead and place it .
28 Doubtless , before coming to the yard , Billingsley had talked with McIllvanney , and I guessed that he had also entertained the Ulsterman afterwards with an account of my pusillanimity .
29 I guessed that he did n't intervene in my dispute with Shadwell because he wanted the situation to deteriorate further .
30 That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school .
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